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New breed of Ads on TR

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Ok..todays add on the right side features a male and female staring into each others eyes..with large font saying KAMASUTRA.

Now, as my boss walks by I’m thinking this is not such a good thing… yesterday it was Mate1, a dating agency..that was bad enough..

Now its changed to IBM..much better.. is anyone else getting funky adds which is potentially going to have a negative effect on thier access to TR?

I’m actually surprised those aren’t being blocked by our filters..

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IMVU?

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I’m guessing teen or pre-teen site. C’mon, you gotta be kidding me. And I’m in a cube with 4′ walls! I’m with you ‘bot, this could easily be misconstrued by my manager.

I tried that thing once

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Completely stupid and pointless.

Weird emotes on it as well, it kept thinking I was the girl and the G.I.R.L. I was talking to was being treated as the guy, so example, at one point she picked up my character and walked around with me.

Hah! One just got filtered

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Just as I posted a reply, an add was blocked. Gotta love it!

Wow.

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must have been hard core.. 🙂

I’ve got a Viagra one now..
I know they bring in money for TR..and thats cool..but if my boss wasn’t so laid back, I’d actually have to stop using TR during work hours “just in case”..

I got a viagra one up now..i’m almost tempted to click it, just out of curiositys sake, but I won’t cause I reckon I’ll get a page with big red letters saying “this site has been blocked for….”

🙂

Curiosity killed the…

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Nice Avatar. 🙂

haha

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thanks..only changed it back to that one, hadn’t used it ages.

its my kitty Levi..he’s a bit “special” and not in the good way if ye know what i mean

I get this on a lot of ads

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Response denied by WatchGuard HTTP proxy.
Reason: header-line too large line=’Set-Cookie: …
Method: GET
Host: ad.yieldmanager.com
Path: …

I guess I’m lucky like that.

This topic came up right after The Gathering

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and it seems since techs wanna get busy, dating sites and viagra go together and are suppose to be good matches for the people that come to TR.

I am still waiting for the first dating site that gives out a weaks supply of viagra when you sign up……. ;\

“If you have an erection longer than four hours…..

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…give us a call, and we’ll send you out a second date.”

]:)

You probably don’t know why I’m laughing

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“weaks” supply of Viagra. That is funny to this pedant.

🙂

I do like malapropisms.

I am amused

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by more subtle comments…. The hidden or inside joke.

Maybe Santee has been a bad influence? :0

I do think that you mean

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“good” influence.

🙂

good

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at being bad…. :p

Coincidental timing???

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TR 10 year gathering in Louisville

Lots of ‘interesting’ ads getting displayed on TR

I’m thinking there is another reason why the pics from the event haven’t been made widely available quite yet–plausible deniability!

:p 😉

well

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i had a rather fetching pic of JD looking longingly at a sausage at breakfast..but i didn’t think it would be appropriate .. so i deleted it..

For awhile I was taking screenshots

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of the goofiest ones. Then, I just installed adblock plus to FF. No more ads.
Pages load a heck of a lot faster, too. 😀

For those of us who cruise TR at work, there’s an entire category of ad lately that can potentially get us into trouble. I can do without that. I need my jobs.

Think of it as a stimulus package

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One person loses a job.

Someone is hired in at a lower salary to replace.

Takes a while to make it onto the unemployment roll, so it temporarily seems as though there was a net job gain.

We’re on the road to recovery!!

:p

Your title made me think a different stimulus…

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Not related to jobs. 😉

Methinks…

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…you picked up on that quite well!

😉

The new spam!! Flash advertising

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Deadly Ernest has a thread on it.

I don’t mind the IT stuff but when it comes to dating, viagra, what’s your favorite michael jackson song, Dr Oz and the miracle pill, or those stupid ads with wome doing crunches or bouncing around in a car seat I think I would rather go somewhere else so I don’t have to look at them.

I don’t see these ads

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Maybe I’ll disable Adblock Plus just so I can.

On second thought…

your not missing much..

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must ask the IT guys if i can use a different browser..or something.. thing is we all on a fairly standard clone and they don’t like you using anything you don’t have to..
I’m one of the lucky ones, I at least have IE7..everyone else on 6..how can one live without tabbed browsing????

Maybe you can show them something

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that corporate would like?

If you can show them a valid reason to use FF with adblock and script block, they would be saving bandwidth AND secure their network better.

well..

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not likely..many reasons there..

but i’m sure if i asked sweetly I can get it sorted for myself..its not that we can’t have “other apps”..its just the status quo that we use MS..

which reminds me..gotta reclone my machine next week…its acting the b0ll0xs

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